An API (Application Programming Interface) is a tool that makes information available to progams in a more convenient format. As an example, humans can go to Twitter’s website in their browser to see a pretty display of tweets. The Twitter API however presents the tweets in a way that is convenient for programs. It just gives the info. In this, we’ve compiled a list of 10 jQuery Plugins For Accessing Web API you can consider using for your web site or application.
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WordPressSpectragram
An easy jQuery plugin for Instagram API to fetch and display user, popular or tags photo feeds inside your web application or site.
Jribbble
A jQuery plugin for fetching shots from the Dribbble API.
gmaps
gmaps.js allows you to use the potential of Google Maps in a simple way. No more extensive documentation or large amount of code.
jQuery Twitter API
jQuery Twitter API aims to give Web developers the ability to request Twitter public informations from a simple JavaScript function call.
Flickr Import
Flickr Import is an extremely lightweight, quick and robust tool to display photos from Flickr onto your website.
TubePlayer
TubePlayer is a jQuery plugin that implements YouTube Player API, and allows you to create your own controls and components for YouTube movies.
Fontselect
A font selector to choose from fonts available as part of the Google Web Fonts api. Let users easily select and preview a font from Google’s large range of free fonts.
Google Powered Site Search with jQuery
In this tutorial we are using Google’s AJAX Search API, to create a custom search engine, with which you can search for web results, images, video and news items on your site.
Facebook Friend Chooser
This plugin is used to display a list of friends using the Facebook JavaScript API . Then user can select a few people and send them a message for example. The output of Facebook Friend Chooser plugin can be user names or user ID or whole user objects obtained by Facebook Graph API
Last.FM
A plugin to grab your recently played tracks from Last.FM’s api using jQuery and Json. Future versions will support other feeds such as favourites and most listened.
